diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
index 5a772f320760..9b8933ef3e99 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 let
   k3s_builder = import ./builder.nix lib;
-  common = opts: callPackage (k3s_builder opts);
+  forVersions = versions: callPackage (k3s_builder (import versions)) extraArgs;
   # extraArgs is the extra arguments passed in by the caller to propagate downward.
   # This is to allow all-packages.nix to do:
   #
@@ -12,15 +12,7 @@ let
   extraArgs = removeAttrs args [ "callPackage" ];
 in
 {
-  k3s_1_34 = (common (import ./1_34/versions.nix) extraArgs).overrideAttrs {
-    patches = [ ./go_runc_require.patch ];
-  };
-
-  k3s_1_35 = (common (import ./1_35/versions.nix) extraArgs).overrideAttrs {
-    patches = [ ./go_runc_require.patch ];
-  };
-
-  k3s_1_36 = (common (import ./1_36/versions.nix) extraArgs).overrideAttrs {
-    patches = [ ./go_runc_require.patch ];
-  };
+  k3s_1_34 = forVersions ./1_34/versions.nix;
+  k3s_1_35 = forVersions ./1_35/versions.nix;
+  k3s_1_36 = forVersions ./1_36/versions.nix;
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/go_runc_require.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/go_runc_require.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d8d5912afd1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/go_runc_require.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Adds explicit require of opencontainers/runc to go.mod before version.sh is called and
-# removes it afterwards so that later build commands don't complain about inconsistent
-# vendoring.
-diff --git a/scripts/package-cli b/scripts/package-cli
-index a15d754926..bc450dbe4e 100755
---- a/scripts/package-cli
-+++ b/scripts/package-cli
-@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ set -e -x
- 
- cd $(dirname $0)/..
- 
-+runc_require=$(grep "github.com/opencontainers/runc" go.mod | awk -F '=> ' '{print $2}' | xargs -0 printf 'require %s')
-+echo "$runc_require" >> go.mod
- . ./scripts/version.sh
-+sed -i '$d' go.mod
- 
- GO=${GO-go}
-